At last week's Board of Trustees meeting at Winthrop University, President Anthony DiGiorgio was given a rating of "exceeds expectations" and board members recommended he get the highest raise allowed. The Winthrop board doesn't get to set his salary, they make a recommendation to the state salary commission, and then the state Budget Control Board decides on the raise in the fall. Right now DiGiorgio makes $157,380. That's about $30,000 more than he made five years ago, though I do not think he has gotten a raise every year.
Meanwhile, the Winthrop board also is mulling a sizable tuition increase to deal with increasing costs and decreases in state funding. Among the things Winthrop needs to pay for is a 1 percent pay increase for employees. That is required by the state. Everything I have ever heard says 1 percent doesn't even cover cost of living. The board still has leeway to give them bigger raises, but I have not heard any discussion about that.
So I wonder what you taxpayers out there think. Should DiGiorgio be given the same raise as other employees? Should he be given a raise at all? If the state offers him a 5 percent raise should he take it?
What do you all think?
i could care less what he
i could care less what he gets paid, however his pay is low for the job he has done. I can also guarantee that any of the pay plans listed above are incomplete; each probably have housing, car allowences, annuities. I bet at CoC, USC and Clemson, those amounts above are about 60% of the total comp. You could not get a qualified person to take the job at CofC for 166k.